I agree, the article conflates several different learning dichotomies that are often only loosely correlated. The specific quote you include isn't totally wron

I agree, the article conflates several different learning dichotomies that are often only loosely correlated. The specific quote you include isn't totally wrong, but it overstates the connection and ignores the contextual differences that maken it more or less true. One of those contexts in the amount of time pressure vs. slack time you have. When you are under lots of time pressure, it's harder to take the time to learn concepts and easy to skip straight to tools. To me, this indicates that the author has misunderstood the cause of the problem. The problem isn't that tool learning replaces concept learning, but that workplace/management cultures commonly don't value concept learning and as a result don't schedule time for it or reward it.